As an update on this issue, in case others run into similar issues, I could solve this by filling in a missing Host http header
And later on in order to get the notebook to connect to its kernel I had to apply this recipe still in the nginx conf http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/websocket.html not quite there yet, but definitely doing progress: students can interact with notebook and save their own copy in the host filesystem -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/8fe60b98-79d3-4962-986f-c98a5ce35fd2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
